Posts by mic weevil
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It is sheer audacity to be asking our Education, Health and Conservation ministries to be tightening their belts while this kind of wasteful spending is taking place.
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Hard News: If wishing made it so ..., in reply to Sacha,
Brighter NZ my arse.
& "# work across government agencies to address risk factors like housing conditions and hygiene in schools – for example, by ensuring hot water and soap are available."
There y'go. all clean and bright now. Rheumatic fever all gone! aspiration achieved!
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The worst thing is that if you're farming for capital gains, while at the same time justifying the value of the land with the amount that can be extracted from it, the apex will come when (preferably, but less likely) commodity prices drop, (more likely) rising fuel prices curb the productivity of the farm (less fert, less milk), or (worst case scenario) the land is polluted to such a degree it can no longer produce and is therefore no longer valuable.
Like I said before: precarious.None of these things is good but they should all be thought about very hard by the whole country.
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Speaker: The Voyage: On Interpreting and…, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
On those numbers, there are increasingly few buyers. Anyone who *is* buying in this market has obviously got something else going on.
Our dairy industry is in a precarious position as the main industry that brings money into the country. Our government should think extra-carefully about encouraging foreign investors to come in and further inflate land prices (further inflating the profits on mortgages to offshore banks) while allowing our export market to be carved up.
How much value will the New Zealand Economy get? The products of the farms will be processed as minimally as possible to transport back to China where further processing can take place at a fraction of the labour costs.
New Zealand taxpayers supposedly have some legal ability to avoid this situation via the OIO but are once again victim to a government intent on selling out it's people.
Gah!
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Hard News: The Editorial Image, in reply to Kumara Republic,
I had a taste of it on a DimPost thread
the upside of that exchange being the sustained absence of that guy from the DimPost ever since
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"Banning dual candidacy will simply encourage the Greens to become the “MMP Party” they purport to be"
I think the biggest downside to the idea of prohibiting dual candidacy is that it disincentivises a party to run strong candidates in seats that are safe for the opposition. Parties won't want to risk their highest value people not making it into parliament, which could lead to the lowering of the quality of competition in safe seats. Small parties will be disincentivised from running a strong candidate in any electorate at all (other than special case like Ohariu & Epsom) so the electorates will become de facto FPP races. Which for all intents & purposes will be no different to how things are now.
The other problem with it, which I think is the clincher, is that it doubles the number of candidates a party has to run in order to contest every vote. For the 2 big parties who currently contest nearly every electorate this won't be an issue, but for small parties who don't have the resources to run strong electorate campaigns in addition to their national one, this could mean the small parties just get less local exposure during campaigns.
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Andrew Geddis on this: here
and free half-a-babies...
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Hard News: The real problem with the…, in reply to John Morrison,
Don't you think this decision is the most 'helpful' to get the saga off the news cycle, and everyone saves face?
Not really sure why helping the Police and politicians involved to save face is important.
As stupid as this incident was, the circus around it majorly derailed the already abbreviated farce of an election. I'd like to be rid of the memory of it, but I also would like to see it spelled out that no law was broken and the PM had no real justification for sending the police off on a taxpayer funded search for who-knows-what in the offices of our media bases... -
Hard News: The Vision Thing, in reply to Bart Janssen,
yes that's social engineering but that is the point.
It's a shame that Social Engineering has developed such negative connotations. In almost every other context engineering is a positive thing but for some reason planning a structure for society is seen as some undesirable imposition of control.
our lives are controlled - by economics and politics. I think it would be great if it were acknowledged that engineering of our society might allow us to actually create the society that all these aspiring leaders are constantly claiming to aspire to in their frickin' ambitions for us all.
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I'm looking forward to someone with more time and wherewithal than I to re-sync the recording to the footage in light of what someone was saying about non-verbal communication upthread...